The Government has approved the implementation of a $130 billion JobKeeper wage subsidy.  Employers must be able to declare a 30 per cent revenue impact to access payments. Our alliance partner Business NSW argued, the wage subsidy is essential to keeping businesses connected with their staff and to avoid large job losses and we at the GEBC agree. Eligible employers will receive a fortnightly payment of $1,500 to pay to each eligible employee that was on their books on 1 March 2020...

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We are advising updates as they come to hand from factual and credible sources. There has been a lot of miscommunication emerging from both non credible and opportunistic sources which is impacting on the actions of the community. This in turn is having a flow on effect to businesses and their operations. Update:
NSW currently has the highest rate of infection nationally. You can see up to date details of the international movement of this virus at https://ww...

Media Release FLEXIBILITY NEEDED TO SAVE SMALL BUSINESS The Gosford Erina Business Chamber is calling for flexibility to be applied to business when it comes to commercial rents across the Central Coast. This action is aimed at assisting to saving small to medium business operations that are doing it tough right now with the current restrictions and business declines directly related to COVID-19 (Coronavirus). COVID-19 has and will continue to impact on business viability across the regio...

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL MEMBERS
Re: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Chamber Event (April)   As members would now be aware, the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially declared COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) a global pandemic. The rapid spread of this virus is serious with some recent cases in NSW being reported where those infected have not travelled overseas. This means that the virus is now being passed from person to person locally. After considering updates and infor...

Central Coast Council has announced it is working with multiple providers to deliver 100 Gigabit per second connectivity to the Central Coast.

Access to a 100Gb/s connection will enable high-speed, high-performance fibre optic data network for Central Coast businesses, providing access to 100Gb/s data speeds and a range of high performance services.

Council CEO Gary Murphy said this enabling infrastructure was a key component of Council's strategy to generate economic returns for the Cent...